Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-04
KANSAS FASHIONS.
Two Towns in Arms
Against Each Other.
A TRUCE SINCE SUNDAY.
But the Ball will Again Open on
Thursday at the County
Election.

Election.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAL d
DENVER, COL, March "a Wallace
Kansas, special to the News says tha
the situation Of the Coronado-Leoti wal
remains unchanged. Both towns are
surrounded by strong crowds of armed
men, who permit no one to enter. The
men in both towns sleep with theii
guns, and after gaining admission, O
stranger finds Winchester at every
turn. They stand in doorways, and
merchants bring their guns to wait on
customers. Men patrol. the streets ol
the city all day and night. The county
surrounding is as bad as the towns, and
about as equally divided. Coronado
sympathizers for the most part are in
town with their ammunition and guns, and
a Coronado man said to-day that within
an hour 500 men could be recruited in
town ready to defend it with their lives.
At Leoti the cry is for revenge. The
citizens are as excited as they were the
day following the shooting, and as they
are unanimous in their determination to
back Coronado at the first opportunity
this chance will probably be offered them
on Thursday next, when the county
election occurs. Immediately after the
shooting on Sunday some man from
Leoti came to Wallace and secured all
the guns and ammunition they could
get, and representatives of Coronad o
went on a similar mission to Garden
City, go that both towns are
well equipped with ammunition for
war, which every man believes will oc.
cur before the thing is settled. The
Leoti population, which has been re-
cruited by their county people, is looked
to for the first move and the Coronado
men will act on the defensive. Each
town has plans, but they are in too
chaotic state for logical results. Since
Sunday there have been no hostile &C.
tions beyond the harmless firing of guns.
At Leoti whisky and beer is freely i'm.
bibed and further trouble is probable.
The county Sheriff, John Edwards, who
is Leoti man, has not made an attempt
to arrest the transgressors, as he knows
that such an effort would cost him his
life. He has twelve warrants, but
unless the State authorities lend the
assistance of couple Of com.,anies of
militia they will never be served, and
even then Coronados say that the men
will never be taken alive. 1t was
reported at the Hotel Vendome in Coro.
nado that the Governor had been
appealed to for aid by Leoti, but no
information has been received here to
that effect. Charlie Coulter and Bill
Raynes, the ring-leaders of the Leoti
crowd, went over to Coronado on Sunday
morning and drank considerable whisky
and beer. Coulter, who was desperate
of the worst type and who is the fourth
Of family of Leotites, who. die
with their boots on, promised
to return the beer he con.
sumed. He and Raynes returned
to Leoti, got the beer and five compan.
ions, three of whom were armed, and re-
turned in a wagon and buggy. They
visited the druggist, who was sick in
bed, and made him get up. Coulter
ordered him to dance, and fred his gun
at his feet to make him obey. The drug.
gist, however, offered to treat if Coulter
would lower his gun. The offer was &C.
cepted by the men, who then went into
the street, and, according to the story,
began firing indiscriminately. Coulter
did most of the shooting. A Coronado
man was struck over the head with the
butt of Coulter's gun. The Loomis broth
ersinterfered and requested the Leoti man
to stop abusing the citizens. For his
reply Coulter turned on both the LOOM
ises and struck at them. He performed
an old plainsman's trick by hitting Bob
Looms over the head and shooting John
Loomis in the leg at the same time.
John was standing back of Bob and, as
Coulter fired, he sprang forward and
clinched with him. The Leoti crowd,
according to the story of the Coronado
men, then began firing at two citizens
who were running up the street. A
dozen Coronado men who had gath.
cred in the street then opened fire and
Coulter seemed the target for them all.
The firing only continued moment and
when the smoke cleared away Raynes,
Coulter and Watkins, who were on the
pavement, had fallen to the ground
dead. OF the other men who were in
the wagon, James Dunning and Johnson
were seriously wounded. A. M. Bosey,
the seventh man of the Leoti crowd,
escaped without any injury. The state
ment that the bodies OF the dead men
were permitted to lie on the street until
midnightis is denied by the Coronado men
and sustained by those of Leoti. There
were fourteen bullets in Coulter's body
and Raynes was wounded in eleven
places, every wound of which would
have been fatal. The two Loomis boys
were only slightly wounded. Jenness, it ii
thought will die, but johnson and Dun.
ming will recover. johnson, who is the
least injured and not dead as reported,
aid he and his companions went t.
Coronado at the invitation of some
friends. They were having little fun il
the streets and probably fired few
shots, but harmed no one. He &C
knowledged that some in the crowd hat
been drinking, but none were drunk
He alleged that the bodies of hi
dead companions were permitted to liz
in the streets until midnight on the da.
following the trouble. Sheriff Edward
is said to have secured warrants for tn
arrest of the two Loomis brothers ant
Lilley Tom Allen. He has a warran
also for Postmaster Fowler, who is oil
rleged to have been implicated in tn
shooting from the door of his office. Th
halfway stage, which connects with tn
conveyance from Leoti and Coronado
left Wallace this merning taking tn
first mail received there since last Satur
day. 1t returned this evening brIngin,
the news of the renewal of hostilities
1t appears from intelligence at hand tina
two Leoti men who were not engaged
In the trouble Sunday, left their towl
and started for Coronado. The outpost
of Coronado opened fire at once. ON
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